The Kerala High Court granted anticipatory bail to veteran actor-cum-director Balachandra Menon in a case accusing him of outraging the modesty of a female actor in 2007 during a film shoot. The court said that men too have "pride and dignity" and not just women. The case was lodged in September this year after the release of the Justice Hema Committee report, which was constituted by the Kerala government after the 2017 actress assault case.
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A court of chief judicial magistrate granted the police 60 days to carry out the probe and directed it to provide progress reports every three weeks, public prosecutor K Balachandra Menon said.
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Directed by debutante director Raaj Prabavathy Menon, the film also stars Balachandra Menon, Babu Antony, Bhumika Chawla.
Balachandra Menon has lost his touch with Njan Samvidhanam Cheyyum, writes Paresh C Palicha.
Nothing makes much sense in Balachandra Menon film, De Ingottu Nokkiye. The only thing it does accomplish is to make a mockery of everything.
Initially we sit tight in our seats expecting something very gripping to happen but, nothing of that sort happens.
The actor's Malayalam film Kadal Kadannu Oru Mathukkutty is all set to release on the eve of Eid.
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'In the whole of my career, some ten-twenty characters might have really satisfied me.'
Buddy is yet another film that tries to be innovative but can't pull it off.
A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem by Kavalam Narayana Panicker where a hymn about nature descends into a musing about cheating, depression and death, feels Sreehari Nair.
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